Hydrocarbon-stove



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. J. GRIFFIIN, OF LOWELL, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF. AND WM. T. VOSE,V'OF

' -NEVVTON'VILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

H-vnR0GARBoN-,srovsl Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,246, dated JanuaryQB, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. J. GRIFFIN, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and Iniproved Stove for Burning Petroleum and other Fluid Hydrocarbons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, aud exact description thereof, which lwill enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference beinghad tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Wiiich-A Figure l is a vertical section of my invention, taken in the line Fig. 2. Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the liney y, Fig. 1.

" Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This inventior relates to a new and improved stove, inwhich petroleum and other hydrocarbons are used for fuel; and it consists in a. novel and improved device for vaporizing the substance used. as a fuel, so that the flame or jet will be properly supplied; and it alsoconsists in using,in connection. with 'the vaporizing device aforesaidLa water-reservoir arranged iu such Vrelation with the tlame or jet that the wateiiwill be converted into steam andthe latter decomposed by the heat from the flame or jet and consumed', so that a very simple and economical heat generator and ditfusr is obtained. y

A represents a cylinder which forms the `b ody of the stove, and B is 'a cylindrical tube, projecting upward fronr the bottom 'of the stove and open at its lower end. t

Frepresents a tube, which leads from the reservoircontainin g the material to be burned. This 'tube is provided with a faucet' or cock,

L, and said tube extends within the cylinder At andcominunicates at its inner end with a clircula'r chamber, E, which is directly over the tubeB. j C is a tube, which extends down from the l' chamber E and communicates with a burner,

G, which is fitted vertically and centrally within B, and is provided with a conical valve, a; by which the supply of vapor to the flame may be regulated as desirerh (See Fig.-1.)

The chamber E is provided with a series of vertical partitions, b, having a space or openi ing, c, at one end, the space of one partition,

being opposite the closed end of the adjoiningil one, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, so as to form f a s iiiuous route or passage through the cham- -bnrner and choking up the same.

titions d are opposite the ends of the tubes C F, a space, c', being allowed at each end of.

these partitions.

The space within the cylinderl A around the cylinder B is a water-chamber, which is supplied froin a fountain through a tube, G", the latter being provided with a cock, H, to regulate the iiow of water into said chamber.

The operation is as follows: The burning material passes down the tubei C into .the chamber E, (the iow being regulated by the cock 1),) where it is vaporized by the heat from the flame ot' burner G after t-he device has been in operation a short time, the first vaporizin g being produced by a spon ge dipped in alcohol, ignited, and placed under E. The circuitous route formed by the partitions b in E insures the complete eva-poration of the fluid which passes into it, and it also prevents the impurities or solid matter which may be contained in the fluid passing down into the Solid particles will be arrested'by the partitions b, and will lodge in the chamber and be entirely con` sumed.- The heat from the ,flame ot' burner Gr vaporizes the water within the cylinder A, and the steam arising therefrom is decomposed by the heat of said dame and the hydrogen gas eliminated thereby consumed, the flame l or jet from the burner and the consumption 'ot' the decomposed steam causing a great .amount of heat to be generated and radiated from the stove.

I do not claim, broadly, the decomposing of steam in connection with a tire for the purpose of economizing in fuel, `for that is old;

I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The employment or use of a water-res- 2. The vaporizing-chamber E, provided with partitions to form a sinuous passage, substantially as and for the purpose specited.

The above specification of my invention signed by lne this 17th day of August, 1865.

` A. I. GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

G. L. TorLirr,

J. M. COVINGTON. 

